From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Sep 23 8:14:29 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 339FE37B401 for ; Mon, 23 Sep 2002 08:14:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from insomnia.spc.org (insomnia.spc.org [195.224.94.183]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2D75D43E77 for ; Mon, 23 Sep 2002 08:14:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bms@insomnia.spc.org) Received: (qmail 28927 invoked by uid 1031); 23 Sep 2002 15:10:59 -0000 Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 16:10:59 +0100 From: Bruce M Simpson To: Roman Neuhauser Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: periodic(8)-produced diffs Message-ID: <20020923151059.GJ23343@spc.org> Mail-Followup-To: Bruce M Simpson , Roman Neuhauser , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org References: <20020923150536.GB30361@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020923150536.GB30361@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 05:05:36PM +0200, Roman Neuhauser wrote: [... re periodic diffs] > And, what would the preferred interface be? Most of periodic.conf knobs > are bools, but I'm not sure > diff_{context,traditional,unified}_format="{YES,NO}" > is better than > diff_format="{context,traditional,unified}" No reason why rc.conf knobs *have* to be bools, what ultimately matters is the case...esac which parses them. I'd avoid relying on a default value in /etc/defaults/rc.conf for the sake of robustness. I prefer unified diffs, personally. BMS To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message